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lobsters
July 15th, 2018
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today i set up https://links.tildeverse.org as a link aggregator for the tildeverse.
it's running the same source as https://lobste.rs

i feel like i should know more about rails apps at this point (just from running administrating them)...

it looks like we're up and running though.

here are some of the things that i ran into today:

* customizing static pages at /about, /chat, and /privacy
  - turns out i needed to add an erb template under views/home/ for each page
* prod-mode assets
  - had to find the right nginx vhost configs to serve the assets
  - then i was getting 404s... cause i didn't run assets:precompile
* systemd envvars
  - originally had the vars set up like this:
    Environment="RAILS_ENV=production OPEN_SIGNUPS=true"
  - rails started complaining that the RAILS_ENV of "production OPEN_SIGNUPS=true" could not be found
  - ended up with two Environment lines

stop by and let's get some nice discussion going!